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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions (Vintage International)

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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions (Vintage International)

V. S. Naipaulâ€™s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fictionâ€“two novels and a collection of storiesâ€“that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.
The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaulâ€™s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidatesâ€™ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidadâ€“whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese nameâ€“to a rooming house in Londonâ€“where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-10-20
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780307776525

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